Sentences with word «uncrewed»

In this case, SpaceX is planning to send the tourists to space in a Dragon 2 spacecraft currently under development, with its first uncrewed test flight planned for this summer, and its first flight to the International Space Station planned for late this year.

On November 8, 2017, NASA released an update following a schedule review of Exploration Mission - 1 (EM - 1), the first uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft to the Moon.

NASA has already commissioned SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, to run cargo flights to the ISS with its Falcon 9 rocket and uncrewed Dragon capsule.

The cargo is being carried by the latest uncrewed spacecraft to vie for a place in the emerging market...

Proposed changes in the US and Europe mean that uncrewed aircraft of all shapes and sizes could go mainstream in the next couple of years, surveying buildings, fertilising fields, sniffing out pollution and more (see «Civilian drones to fill the skies after law shake - up «-RRB-.

Built by Boeing, the X-37B is a miniature, uncrewed version of NASA's retired space shuttle.

It is modeled after the Orion spacecraft that saw its first uncrewed test in 2014, when NASA launched the spacecraft into space for a high - speed return to Earth.

CE5 - T1 is a steppingstone to Chang» e-5, China's last planned uncrewed mission to the moon.

THE hobbyist was testing the camera on board his small uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV), when he spotted it: a creek in Dallas, Texas, running red with blood.

Dragon is already used for uncrewed cargo missions to the ISS — one is docked there right now.

Elbon said that Boeing's CST - 100 spacecraft will have its first uncrewed orbital test to the ISS in April 2017, with a crewed test in July 2017 and operational services beginning in December 2017.

The deep space capsule will fly uncrewed until at least 2022, when the second SLS mission is expected to take four astronauts around the moon.

The cargo is being carried by the latest uncrewed spacecraft to vie for a place in the emerging market to supply the ISS.

A drone that mimics the way a bat changes its wing shape in flight could make small uncrewed vehicles far more agile.

Protective covers and the explosive bolts used to separate them from uncrewed spacecraft have also been left to float away, along with a few lens caps for good measure.

Sporting a gaping air intake in place of a cockpit, the UK's first uncrewed fighter aircraft was unveiled at an airfield in Warton, Lancashire, today.

With UAVs already proving their worth, the future looks bright for uncrewed aviation as the upcoming regulatory changes enable still more uses to be dreamed up.

Law changes mean uncrewed aerial vehicles aren't just for the military any more — civilian uses are taking off, too

NASA is set to send the Orion deep - space capsule on its inaugural uncrewed flight this week.

Richardson, an oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, realised that if he could unravel the bird's flying secrets, they could lead to a new generation of uncrewed gliders capable of surveying vast areas of ocean without using a drop of fuel.

If uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are ever to share airspace with piloted craft, they'll need to be able to work with a high degree of autonomy.

You reported on the proposal for a US hypersonic uncrewed aircraft — Lockheed Martin's SR - 72 equipped with a Mach - 3 busting...

Led by Andy Keane and Jim Scanlan of the University of Southampton, the team believes that 3D printing will soon allow uncrewed aircraft known as drones or UAVs to...

Rovers launched in 2018 and 2021 will corral five more uncrewed capsules, placing all six in a row that the first four astronauts can connect into a habitat when they arrive.

Then just last year, another option arrived when the European Space Agency successfully flew its own uncrewed cargo carrier, the Automated Transfer Vehicle, to the ISS — carrying three times the cargo of a Progress vehicle.

Unlike previous uncrewed cargo - carrying craft, which dock automatically or under human control, the HTV stops dead alongside the ISS when its retro rockets fire and it is grabbed by the space station's giant robot arm.

DARPA hopes to be able to track vehicles across an entire city using just a few uncrewed aircraft.

NASA plans to carry out the first uncrewed Orion test flight in 2018, followed by a crewed test - flight in 2021.

The X-37B, a miniature, uncrewed version of the space shuttle, built by Boeing for the US air force, has flown three times but its purpose is a mystery.

Launch company SpaceX may even shoot two space tourists around the moon before NASA's giant rocket, the Space Launch System, makes its first uncrewed flight, in December at the earliest.

Until now, uncrewed missions to space stations like the now defunct Mir, and the ISS, have been carried out by the veteran Russian craft, Progress.

As noted on Ars Technica, both Boeing and SpaceX have expressed confidence that uncrewed test flights would begin before the close of this year (2018), according to the Ars Technica report, a U.S. House Subcommittee on Space hearing cast doubt on these assertions.

After an uncrewed test mission to the ISS later this year, SpaceX and NASA will send a crew aboard Dragon 2 to the ISS sometime in mid-2018.

The company has already flown its reusable New Shepard rocket four times, launching its uncrewed capsule into space and then returning the rocket safely to the West Texas desert.

The United Arab Emirates has announced details of its uncrewed Mars probe, which it plans to launch in 2020 to monitor the planet's atmosphere from orbit.

Taranis is the outcome of a 2006 Ministry of Defence decision to develop and fly an uncrewed plane that goes one better than the US systems by using a customised Rolls Royce jet engine rather than a propeller.

ETHZ's uncrewed «SenseSoar» is a winged plane that will fly autonomously over the terrain in question, beaming infrared data that its scanners have detected back to base.

Taranis is the UK government's response to the dominance of US technology in the uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) market, where aircraft such as the General Atomics Predator reign supreme.

Today, the Ministry of Defence and the UK - based military technology company BAE Systems unveiled the fruits of that development in a high - security roll - out of their Uncrewed Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV).

Right now, SpaceX is planning to make an uncrewed flight of its crew - carrying Dragon spacecraft to the space station this year, and its first crewed flights are expected to happen in mid-2018, according to Musk.

The first major milestone came in 1999 with the launch of Shenzhou - 1, an uncrewed test capsule that marked the start of the human space - flight programme.

Next Tuesday an uncrewed Cygnus cargo ship will blast off to the International Space Station with the ingredients to build and burn in space

The launch began a two - day chase of the space station that is to end Tuesday morning when European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman reach out to the uncrewed Dragon with the station's robot arm and maneuver the capsule to latch onto a port of the station.

Unlike a net you would use in the ocean, this one is a 700 - metre - long mesh of aluminium and steel wires that hangs from an uncrewed spacecraft.

Next month an uncrewed Japanese craft is due to return while an ambitious American team plans to «fly» to the bottom

In early November 2011, another uncrewed craft — Shenzhou 8 («Vessel of the Gods 8»)-- mated in space with Tiangong 1.

Just a glance at the past few months gives some idea of the level of China's commitment and activity: In September 2011, China's first space laboratory — the uncrewed, 10 - meter - long spacecraft Tiangong 1 («Heavenly Palace 1»)-- achieved low Earth orbit.

In a move that will garner begrudging respect from Bond villains around the world, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos secretly launched an uncrewed rocket to space yesterday from his private launch facility in the Texas desert.